Industry, under the pressure of the market and regulatory burdens, is forced to improve in order to provide competitively priced, high-quality products demanded by their customers. Companies must find methods that improve quality and reduce cost within regulatory constraints to be successful.

Ipsen shipped a TITAN H2 vacuum heat-treating system with 2-bar gas quenching to Costa Rica, where it will be used to manufacture surgical components.

Since writing my first article on dew point versus oxygen analysis in May 2016, we have experienced multiple rounds of brutal heat and humidity that prompted advisories and warnings from Massachusetts to Missouri.

In this article, we focus on the simulation work being done with CarbTool© technology in the area of low-pressure carburization (LPC), also referred to as vacuum carburization.

Solar Manufacturing shipped a vacuum furnace to Magnetic Shields Ltd., a U.K. manufacturer of magnetic shielding.

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA recently added an all-molybdenum hot-zoned vacuum furnace.

Before the holidays we talked about how vacuum-pump oil becomes contaminated. It is now time to talk about how to overcome this problem using gas ballasting – how it is performed, its advantages and limitations.

For the second year in a row, we asked readers about the state of the thermal-processing industry.